Glutinoglossum heptaseptatum was described in 2013 in a paper by mycologists V. P. Hustad, A. N. Miller, T. M. Dentinger and P. F. Cannon published in Persoonia.
The town is home to a small population of the critically endangered North Rothbury Persoonia (Persoonia pauciflora).
Persoonia longifolia, the long-leaf persoonia or snottygobble, a small tree species found in Western Australia
First collected by John White in the vicinity of Port Jackson (Sydney) in 1794, Persoonia hirsuta was described by Christiaan Hendrik Persoon in his 1805 work Synopsis Plantarum.